Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 19, 2023

Every Earth Day (April 22, 2023 this year–see our previous article on Earth Day Class Activities ) someone in your school, maybe the parent group, raises the question of WHY NOT a paperless classroom? Everyone nods their heads, agrees this is a revolutionary idea, and moves on as Earth Day passes. Really, though: Why not? There are benefits to adopting alternatives to paper: it’s easy to collaborate when everything’s online nothing gets soda dripped on it or eaten by the dog st

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Ditch That Textbook

APRIL 19, 2023

Curipod creates interactive slide presentations in seconds using artificial intelligence. See how it can engage your students and save you time.Post sponsored by Curipod Imagine arriving at school in the morning and realizing, "Oh no! I need some slides for a lesson -- today! I'll never have time to create something good!" Then, you remember that […] The post 10 ways Curipod engages your students with AI appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter What if you could create multiple choice questions inside ChatGPT and then export into Gimkit? Quizizz? Other apps? Why yes you can! In this post, I will demonstrate how I helped our science teacher create some questions in ChatGPT. Then, how we exported them and pulled them into Gimkit!

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Digital Promise

APRIL 19, 2023

The post Starting Early: Promoting Meaningful Science, Math, and Engineering in Preschool appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Generative AI holds tremendous promise for all stakeholders in higher education. But guardrails are needed. Strong governance that empower instructors are at the core of a responsible approach to using generative AI in academia.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. It’s about more than tests and grades. It’s about helping kids discover themselves and the world around them. The work of a teacher, at its core, is to model and reflect back what it means to live. Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society.

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Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

APRIL 19, 2023

Is AI going to be the end of teaching and school? There is no doubt that there are some things AI can do better than a human being. So what becomes the roll of school or will AI make school obsolete? The post Will AI Make School Obsolete? appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

The United States is experiencing a national education shortage of teachers leaving the profession in droves, coined “The Great Resignation” due to high anxiety, burnout, safety concerns, low salaries, and challenging job demands. This shortage is further fueled by plummeting enrollment in teacher preparation programs. The Wall Street Journal reported that at least 300,000 public school teachers and other staff left the field alone between February 2020 and May 2022.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 19, 2023

A panel of superintendents at the annual ASU+GSV Summit talk about what they're prioritizing in the next generation of ed-tech tools. The post Three Ways That District Leaders Separate Ed-Tech Reality From Hype appeared first on Market Brief.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

BOSTON, MA – Kids today do not feel adequately prepared to make informed, confident decisions about what they want to do after high school. Research shows that more than 65 percent of students feel they would have benefited from more career exploration in middle and high school. An additional study states that less than half of Gen Z respondents said they had enough information to decide what pathway was best for them after high school.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 19, 2023

Augmented Reality (AR) is gradually becoming an integral component of educational strategies. The technology is making it possible to add a layer of enhanced reality to a context-sensitive virtual world. This gives educators and trainers numerous possibilities to enhance the learning experience, making it lively, significant and circumstantial to the learner.

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APRIL 19, 2023

Charlotte, NC — In celebration of Earth Day 2023, Discovery Education presents K-12 teachers and students a diverse array of cross-curricular digital resources inspiring exploration of the natural world and environmental stewardship. Available on Discovery Education’s Earth Day website and award-winning K-12 learning platform , this collection of high-quality digital content is organized by grade band and has been curated by Discovery Education’s team of curriculum experts.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 19, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast If students play an important role in fostering a positive school culture, then student voices should be at the forefront of conversations about school climate. That was the main message from the edLeader panel, “ Amplifying Student Voice to Improve School Culture and Climate.” More important, the panelists shared how they integrate the students and their needs during every step of the process to make sure their voices aren’t lost.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As a senior at Indianapolis’ Ben Davis High School, Jacob Gregory enrolled in an Exploratory Teaching program. He thought of it as an easy way to leave school for a few hours, but it ended up sparking “an unknown interest in teaching,” he said. Today, the sixth grade math and science teacher at McKinley Elementary School is a quiet rock star.

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MiddleWeb

APRIL 19, 2023

While there are times when consensus makes sense, collaborative experiences are often most beneficial when they center on open-ended questions that invite students’ thinking. Teaching coach Gravity Goldberg shares ways to encourage exploration and creative expression in groups. The post Help Your Students Avoid Collaboration’s Downside first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 19, 2023

Lessons Learned From Violent Incidents: When Horrible Things Happen at Libraries Part of the Library 2.0 Service , Safety, and Security Series with Dr. Steve Albrecht After the April 18th shooting in Tulsa, OK we revised this webinar and made it free rather than paid. The original title of the webinar was "The 2017 Clovis, New Mexico Library Shootings: The Teenage Attacker Reveals His Motives.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

APRIL 19, 2023

THE NEW TEACHER CENTER…Seeking a new vision for teaching and learning by anchoring equity through three powerful and highly integrated shifts: 1) embracing teaching and learning as a dynamic relational human exchange 2) expanding the concept of educator and community Keep Reading SEEKING A NEW VISION FOR TEACHING & LEARNING WITH THE NEW TEACHER CENTER The post SEEKING A NEW VISION FOR TEACHING & LEARNING WITH THE NEW TEACHER CENTER appeared first on Equity in Education.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 19, 2023

The School of Information at San José State University is the founding sponsor of the Library 2.0 conference series, a partnership we have had for 13 years. Please consider attending either or both of these free events in the next few days. California School Library Symposium From California School Libraries to Innovation Centers APRIL 20, 2023 - 6:00PM - 7:30PM JONATHAN HUNT KATIE MCNAMARA DR.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

APRIL 19, 2023

Six Key Findings Illustrate the Importance of Unifying and Streamlining Communications and New Ways Education Leaders Can Address Issues of Branding, Equity and Engagement School and district administrators across the United States continue to have strong preferences for digital tools Keep Reading National Survey Reveals K-12 Communications & Engagement Trends The post National Survey Reveals K-12 Communications & Engagement Trends appeared first on Equity in Education.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

Pittsburgh, PA – Carnegie Learning , a leader in K-12 education innovation, high-quality products and services, and AI, announced today that the company has added new multilingual and bilingual certified math and literacy instructors to the high-dosage tutoring team in Gadsden County, New Mexico, to meet the needs of students in the state’s fourth-largest school district.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

APRIL 19, 2023

Where and how did you grow up? While I lived in Northern California for a bit as a toddler, I mainly grew up in a suburb of Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley. I was living in the era of Keep Reading Q&A With Contributing Writer Vanessa Heller The post Q&A With Contributing Writer Vanessa Heller appeared first on Equity in Education.

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